Electric-lighting system



(No Model.)

0. L. MOREY. ELECTRIC LIGHTING SYSTEM.

' No. 500,026. Patented June 20, 1893.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES L. MOREY, OF TJENTRALIA, ILLINOIS.

ELECTRIC-LIGHTING SYSTEM.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 500,026, dated June20, 1893.

Application filed February 11, 1893. v Serial No. 461,882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES L. MOREY, of Centralia, in the county ofMarion and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved DoorAttachment, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription. 7

The object of the invention is' to provide a new and improved doorattachment, which is simple and durable in construction, and arranged toshed a snfficient quantity of light to enable the operator to make theproper selection of the key, and to illuminate the door lock forconveniently finding the key-hole.

The invention consists of a casing arranged in the door casing andcontaining an electric lamp, and a push button also arranged in the saidcasing and serving to close the circuit of the lamp. The invention alsoconsists of certain parts and details and combinations of the same, as.

will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of thisspecification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improvement as applied. Fig. 2 isan enlarged face view of the improvement; and Fig. 3 is a sectional planview of the same on the line 33 of Fig. 2. l

The improved door attachment is provided with a suitably constructedcasing A, preferably made cylindrical, and provided at its front facewith a plate B. The casing A is set in the door casing O with the plateB on the outer face of the casing and in the immediate neighborhood ofthe door lock D, as is plainly illustrated in Fig. 1.

In the casing A is arranged a push button E projecting a suitabledistance beyond the plate B to be within convenient reach of theoperator standing'on the outside of the door. The push button E isadapted to close the circuit F for an electric lamp G, set in a recess Hformed in the casing A, the front of the said recess being closed bya-glass plate I located in the rear of the plate B, provided with anaperture covered by the glass plate, as is plainly shown in Fig. 3. Thewalls of the recess H are preferably arranged angularly and covered witha suitable coating to make the walls reflect the light of the lamp Gthrough the glass plate I. When the push button E is in its normalposition, as shown in Fig. 3, then the circuit F is broken, but when thepush button is pressed by the operator the circuit is closed and thelamp lighted, so that the rays of light emanating from the electric lamppass through the glass plate I to the outside of the casing, to illuminate part of the outside of the door to enable the operator to makethe proper selection of the key to open the door with, and also toconveniently find the key-hole in the door.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent 1. A door attachment comprising a casing, anelectric lamp set in the said casing, and a push button for closing thecircuit of the said lamp, substantially as shown and described.

2. A door attachment comprising a casing having a reflecting recess, anelectric lamp contained in the said recess, a circuit for the said lamp,and a push button arranged in the said casing for closing the saidcircuit, substantially as shown and described.

3. A door attachment comprising a casing having a reflecting recess andprovided with a front plate holding a glass plate over the outer end ofthe said recess, anelectric lamp arranged in the said recess, and a pushbutton fitted to slide in the said casing and plate, and adapted toclose the circuit of the said electric lamp, substantially as shown anddescribed.

Witnesses:

L. D. MOREY,

CHARLES O. DEAN.

CHARLES L. MOREY.

